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What was never discussed was whether the Company was legally empowered to try Zafar at all. For though the government took the position that Zafar received a pension from the Company, and was therefore the Company’s pensioner and thus subject, the actual legal position was considerably more ambiguous. While the Company’s 1599 charter to trade in th
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longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
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Selon Yoël Bainish, qui est pour cette période de la vie du Roi le témoin le plus précis et le plus constant, Reb Klimrod et surtout Lazarus comptaient alors parmi les terroristes les plus recherchés par les Britanniques en Palestine.
Paul-Loup Sulitzer • Le roi vert (French Edition)
mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
While those who had fought conventional battles could talk of their heroic achievements, those who had fought intellectual battles of no less significance had to endure the embarrassment of having to evade questions about their wartime activities.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Once again, however, the opportunity for financial innovation was provided by war.